Rage (1972)
This directorial debut of George C. Scott is not a disappointment in his direction of actors and himself; he conducts some effective dramatic sequences, some interesting thrilling scenes and almost creates a relevant story. In simple words: he plays Dan…
Carnosaur
It’s hard to overstate how much Jurassic Park conquered the box office — and much of the rest of pop culture — when it stomped into theaters in 1993. The movie was a massive hit, topping the yearly box office…
Wes Craven Passes At 76
Wes Craven, the famed writer-director of horror films known for the Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream movies, died Sunday after a battle with brain cancer. He was 76. Craven, whose iconic Freddy Krueger character horrified viewers for years, died…
Bloody Mama (1970)
Fun movie about a gun toting Ozark clan that rebels against their Depression-era poverty by stealing, threatening, robbing banks, kidnapping, and killing their way into infamy. The clan’s leader is colorful Ma (Kate) Barker (Shelley Winters), self-confident, forceful, and determined…
The Secret Invasion (1964)
Cheapie director Roger Corman brings us this low-budget, high-octane thriller. THE SECRET INVASION was shot in Yugoslavia and released by United Artists in 1964. In 1943, British intelligence sends five convicted criminals into Yugoslavia to rescue an Italian General and…
For The Love Of Small Town Theatres: A Beacon Of Cinematic Hope Rises
Hooray for Hollywood That phoney, super coney Hollywood They come from Chillicothes and Padukahs With their bazookas to get their names up in lights All armed with photos from local rotos With their hair in ribbons and legs in tights…
Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961)
So many people seem to believe that this was supposed to be a straight-up horror film. It is anything but that. Creature From the Haunted Sea is a broad farce first, a political satire second, and finally a horror film/creature…
Charles Griffith-Screenwriter
Legendary screenwriter Charles Byron Griffith was born in Chicago on September 23, 1930. His mother and grandmother starred in the famous radio show, “Myrt and Marge,” which went on to New York and became a soap opera. After a hitch…
Willow Creek (2013)
The danger with such movies is to concentrate on style over substance and what this film most definitely lacks, is substance. I must be honest this is a movie style which has never really appealed to me from Blair Witch…
Exists (2014)
Director Eduardo Sanchez broke into public consciousness in a big way back in 1999 via his collaboration with Daniel Myrick “The Blair Witch Project.” Love it or hate it, that low-budget indie film revolutionized the way horror films were done…
The Theatre Bizarre (2011)
“Theater Bizarre” is a horror anthology that much reminds me of last years “Little Deaths” in that it takes some rather strange and extreme ideas for some of the stories of which there are many. So lets start at the…
Hardware (1990)
By the early 21st century things have really gone miserably down the tubes: mass unemployment, never-ending ongoing wars, no rainfall in many a moon, the government sponsors mass sterilization, a dense cloud of radiation hangs heavily in the air, hard…
The Black Gestapo (1975)
One of the many blaxploitation with the title prefix Black… (…Samurai, …Caesar, …Aphrodite), Gestapo also manages – rather uncomfortably – to incorporate the iconography of Nazism, bringing another of the popular sub-genre’s of the exploitation market, that together make nazi-blaxploitation….
Policewomen (1974)
“Policewomen” (actually, there is technically only ONE policewoman in the movie) is not as sleazy or action-filled as other drive-in movies of the period. However, it does manage to be much more enjoyable than many of them. Much of this…
Don’t Go in the House (1979)
I first heard about Don’t Go In The House when Quentin Tarantino mentioned that it was one of the most disturbing films he had ever seen. That’s a bit hard to ignore, especially when it is coming from someone who…
The Boss (1973)
he third and final film in Fernando Di Leo’s excellent Millieu trilogy, “Il Boss” of 1973 is an absolute masterpiece that easily ranks among the most brilliant Mafia films ever brought to screen. Director Di Leo had created one of…
Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971)
This may very well be the kinkiest mainstream Hollywood movie ever made. Picture Rock Hudson as Coach Tiger McDrew, a playboy teacher sleeping with the female student body, killing the ones who threaten to expose him or cause him problems,…
Embryo (1976)
Aside from great high profile work like the Exorcist, the 70s threatens to be eclipsed in the history of the horror film. It is remembered as the decade of slasher junk (the best of the sad field possibly being Halloween)….
Universal Studios Rides A Lower Budget Strategy to Success
Earlier this year I spent a great night at the Cinema 67 Drive-in in Spencer, Indiana. John, one of the owners of the drive-in was a great host. The lot was clean and had a sense of comfort to it,…
Dust Devil (1992)
Never before have I seen a director’s cut that’s made so much of a difference to my perceptions of a movie. My first viewing of “Dust Devil” was the Wienstein cut, with about half an hour amputated for American audiences….